The Early Church Bible: A Reader's Edition of the Septuagint and New Testament

by LXX Publishing

The Early Church Bible presents Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton’s translation of the Septuagint together with the American Standard Version translation of the New Testament. Brenton’s Septuagint and the ASV’s New Testament are both literal translations in the classical beauty of the English language. Both translations have been updated to conform to modern American spelling of words and the common spelling of names and geographic locations. Minor edits have also been made to the punctuation and content. For example, in the Old Testament books the word “hell” has been updated to “Hades” to better reflect the meaning of the Greek. Early manuscripts of Scripture did not contain chapter and verse divisions, section headings, cross-references, poetic formatting, footnotes, punctuation, or even spaces between words. Other than retaining the punctuation and spaces between words, the Early Church Bible seeks to reproduce a similar experience for the modern reader, and so the present volume reads very much like a novel. For similar reasons, books that were artificially separated due to limitations of scroll length have been combined, including I-IV Kingdoms (I & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings), I-II Chronicles, and II Esdras (Ezra/Nehemiah). Because the early Christians considered the Apocrypha to be Scripture, the Apocryphal books of the Bible are not separated out into their own section. Rather, they are interspersed with the rest of the books according to genre, as found in the manuscript copies of the Septuagint.

2557 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2018